Ray did a great job coordinating the move of the Greensburg to the T & S r.r. so it could be tested on the 4 mile run with serious grades. The locomotive will be there for a little while you will have to check it out at some point in time. It was a miners B-day celebration in the snow.

Joined: Fri Jul 15, 2005 2:34 pmPosts: 6906Location: Within 60 Miles of the Northern Anthracite Field

well then id say definatly leave it there how long is it going to be there for? and you said it stalled out on the grades, the rail looked like it was wet and had snow on it. do you think with sand and dry rails it would have climbed the grade? at pioneer tunnel in the winter the motor will stall out if you are stopped on the grade inside the mine then try to start. but if you back back down and get a running start it climbs no problem. or if you sand the rails it will start too. however that wears out the wheels so we try to avoid sand unless needed.

It never stalled out & we are only running half the voltage. We actually set a record there. There is a long grade on the rail line & this was the first locomotive to climb it on wet rails with no sand. This this moves right along with dry rails look out.

Almost all their equipment used to be 36" ga but all pushed in to 24in ga now. They have Vulcans, Brookville & Plymouths & several pieces of rolling stock at that location. Ray & I were debating that they decided to match the Vulcan since it was 24 in ga originally & they did not have to push it in.

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